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Chris Farrell

Chris Farrell is economics editor of Marketplace Money, a nationally syndicated one-hour weekly personal finance show produced by American Public Media. Chris is also economics correspondent for Marketplace, the largest business program in broadcasting and chief economics correspondent for American RadioWorks, the largest producer of long-form documentaries in public radio. He is also contributing economics editor at Business Week magazine. He was host and executive editor of public television’s Right on the Money. He is the author of two books: Right on the Money: Taking Control of Your Personal Finances, and Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall. Chris is a graduate of Stanford and the London School of Economics.

Latest from Chris Farrell

  • Economics editor Chris Farrell
    American Public Media

    As we watch global markets collapse, economics editor Chris Farrell tells us to take a proverbial deep breath and shares with Tess Vigeland his checklist of constructive things we can do in these troubled times.

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  • Oct 25, 2008

    TIPS

    Question: On a recent show, you suggested that investors should hold a significant amount of TIPS in their IRAs. I think this is a reasonable idea…

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  • Oct 24, 2008

    A margin of safety

    Comment: My husband and I are respectively 81 and 76. Luckily my husband is very conservative and has invested largely in CD's, bonds and TIPS….

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  • Question: With all this talk of the credit crisis, I'm wondering what's become of microlending and those microlending companies you've covered in…

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  • Oct 22, 2008

    Read it–and weep

    These numbers from Alicia Munnell, economist at Boston College, are unbelievable….

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  • Question: Many of us know about the woes being felt by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and their stock performance tells it well. But is now the time…

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  • Question: I hear a lot about money market accounts, and Roth IRA's as safe haven's for investing. I've been putting money away in a ING savings…

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  • Oct 18, 2008

    Getting Personal

    Getting Personal
    Marketplace

    Economics editor Chris Farrell and host Tess Vigeland take questions on retirement savings, safety versus high returns and investing overseas.

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  • Question; My husband and I are both in our early 30s and now that we are both finished with graduate school we are finally in a position for the…

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  • Social Security says that benefits will increase by 5.8% in 2009. Social Security is really the only retirement product that offers genuine…

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